Giving up: 40% women, 28% men, 39% youth don't want a job

Washington Examiner ^ | November 14, 2014 | Paul Bedard

[george76]

Nearly four in 10 Americans, or 92 million, are not in the labor force and now there’s a reason why: They have simply given up and don’t want to work.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the largest group of people not in the labor force are those who don’t want a job, a remarkable statement on the nation’s work ethic. The federal job counter said that 85.9 million adults last month didn’t want a job, or 93 percent of all adults not in the labor force.

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Pew said that 39 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds don’t want to work, up from 29 percent in 2000.

[Crazieman]

I don’t want to work either. Am I a sucker for doing 60+ hour weeks in this new, modern era?

[Paladin2]

It’s past time to go Galt.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

For crying out loud.

People are giving up. We need to bring jobs back to America.

[Common Sense 101]

STFU one tune wonder...

[detective]

Liberals have killed the American work ethic. These people don’t want to contribute anything to society but want others to support them.

Fewer and fewer workers are supporting more and more parasites.

[txrefugee]

That’s a fine kettle of fish, Ollie. No work, plenty benefits, and paying no taxes. Money going out, not coming in. Even stupid Democrats ought to be able to figure out that this is no way to run a country.

[Safrguns]

2Th 3:10

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

[Petrosius]

For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you.d 9 Not that we do not have the right. Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us. In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat. (2 Thess 3:7-10)

BTW, a full time housewife is working.

[dfwgator]

“I just want to bang on the drum all day.”

[shove_it]

0bama has has redefined “safety-net” to “mother’s womb”.

[Petrosius]

You beat me by 43 seconds! : )

[pierrem15]

Are more likely reason is that the BLS statistics are lies: they want the unemployment rate to appear much lower than it is.

[dfwgator]

0bama has has redefined “safety-net” to “mother’s womb”.

This is more the image.

[Chad_the_Impaler]

Fewer and fewer workers are supporting more and more parasites.

Most of the those youths are still living off their parents rather than the public. So they are still in the larval stage.

[central_va]

We need to bring jobs back to America.

He's is correct. We need trade tariffs now. 10% ought to do it.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I will not shut up.

America now runs somewhere along the lines of 300 billion dollars in trade deficit with China, every single year.

We are building up our own next adversary. China now has the world’s second largest defense budget.

We need to rebuild AMERICA. Step buying everything from China.

[crusher2013]

Finding enough jobs for its people is the top priority for every country in the world but ours.

Our policies are designed to bring down the cost of labor (standard of living) for the majority of it citizens by whatever means possible.

Sorry you can’ see that.

[asinclair]

What is missing from the article is how the people not willing to work manage to survive? How many are living in their parents' basements? How many are getting unemployment benefits? Disability? Other government handouts?

The next set of questions is how many of these people are working in the gray market? The black market? Organized crime? Gangs?

[Maudeen]

Some people don’t want to work and are reaping the benefits big time.